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Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1202–1205 (1996)

Onsager Reciprocity Relations without Microscopic Reversibility

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D. Gabrielli
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italia

G. Jona-Lasinio
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Piazza A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italia

C. Landim
IMPA, Estrada Dona Castorina 110, J. Botanico, 22460 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil
and URA CNRS 1378, Université de Rouen, F-76128 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France

Received 14 July 1995; published in the issue dated 12 August 1996

In this paper we show that Onsager-Machlup time-reversal properties of thermodynamic fluctuations and Onsager reciprocity relations for transport coefficients can hold also if the microscopic dynamics is not reversible. This result is based on the explicit construction of models which can be analyzed rigorously.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1202
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1202
PACS:
05.20.-y, 05.40.+j, 05.60.+w

See Also

Comment: J. L. Lebowitz and H. Spohn, Comment on “Onsager Reciprocity Relations without Microscopic Reversibility”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 394 (1997).

Reply: D. Gabrielli, G. Jona-Lasinio, and C. Landim, Gabrielli, Jona-Lasinio, and Landim Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 395 (1997).